Dinner with Save the Pine Bush
Save the Pine Bush's volunteers worked for decades to preserve the Albany, New York, Pine Bush through the use of litigation and education. The Albany Pine Bush is globally rare pine barrens ecosystem and home many rare species, including the endangered Karner Blue Butterfly.
Save the Pine Bush has sustained itself for forty years by inviting everyone to join them for monthly vegetarian lasagna dinners. Each dinner features a speaker on the Pine Bush or other environmental issue, including climate change, solid waste issues, or other important topics.
If you cannot make it to the delicious dinner, you are welcome to hear the speakers on the podcast!
- Update frequency
- every 33 days
- Average duration
- 74 minutes
- Episodes
- 15
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
John Cryan - Saving the Pine Bush All Over Again
John Cryan, entomologist and co-founder of the Long Island Pine Barrens Society, will speak about how we have battled preservation to a standoff; we have a preserve, but it’s in pieces and fragments,…
Christian Grigoraskos from Extinction Rebellion - Climate Change: Heading for Extinction (And What to Do About It)
The planet is in ecological crisis: we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction event this planet has experienced. Scientists believe we may have entered a period of abrupt climate breakdown. Th…
Tina Lieberman and Paul Tick - A Burning Issue
Tina and Paul talk about the poisons coming our way from the proposed tire burning by Lafarge in Ravena. This $27 billion multi-national company plans to burn tires from around NYS and other states a…
Hugh Johnson speaks about How Trump could ruin our National Weather Service and trump our chances to reverse climate change for good
Hugh Johnson
Retired National Weather Service Meteorologist
speaks about
How Trump could ruin our National Weather Service and trump our chances to reverse climate change for good
Hurricane Dorian wa…
Merton Simpson speaks about Fighting Environmental Racial Injustice
Merton is a street activist and community organizer. He is also an Albany County legislator. He is best known for his work with SHARE, the Sheridan Hollow Alliance for Renewable Energy that he co-cha…
Waste Reduction and Recycling: Neil Seldman, PhD.
How the Capital District can Transition from Landfills & Incineration to Zero Waste
October 14th 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
History of US waste and recycling, restructuring of recycling, localization of soli…
Doug Bullock speaks about Environmental Legislation in Albany County
Doug has been an Albany County legislator since 2008 and has an outstanding record of accomplishments. Most recently, he sponsored a resolution to make Albany County pollinator friendly. This has b…
Lou Ismay speaks about The Environmental Forum
Lou Ismay was a professor at the Environmental Forum at the University of Albany from the mid-1960s to the early 1970’s. During the Save the Pine Bush Earth Day dinner this year, Lou began to tell th…
The Commission’s Analysis of Pyramid Crossgates Building Proposal in the Pine Bush
Neil A. Gifford, Conservation Director, Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission speaks about Pyramid Crossgates is proposing to construct 222 apartments in five buildings on twenty acres of Pine Bush. T…
Done with Dunn Landfill: Negative Impacts of Dunn C/D Dump Operations
Done with Dunn Landfill: Negative Impacts of Dunn C/D Dump Operations
David Ellis from Rensselaer Residents Against Toxic Dumping spoke about the history of the Dunn Landfill property in the City of …
Honoring Lou Ismay — Revolution for the Environment — Past and Future
Earth Day Event
Lou Ismay, George Keleshian and Steve Coyle
will speak about
Revolution for the Environment — Past and Future
The April dinner will open with a celebration of Lou Ismay for his work w…
The Lac-Mégantic Rail Disaster: Public Betrayal, Justice Denied
Bruce Campbell is a Canadian author whose recently-published book about the 2013 oil train explosion in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec outlines the regulatory and policy failures that led up to the disaster an…
Health Effects of the ANSWERS Plant Pollution and The Proposed Sheridan Hollow Gas-Fired Power Power Plant
Ward Stone, Former NYS Wildlife Pathologist and Keith Schue speak about Health Effects of the ANSWERS Plant Pollution and The Proposed Sheridan Hollow Gas-Fired Power Power Plant In this time of si…
The Rapp Road Historical Association
Anne Pope, Rev. Sam Johnson and Stephanie Woodard will speak about the African-American history of Great Migration from Shabuta, Mississippi to the South End of Albany and then, to Rapp Road in the …
The Proposed Sewage Treatment Plant in Lincoln Park
The Proposed Sewage Treatment Plant in Lincoln Park
The City of Albany is proposing to put an automated sewage treatment plant in Lincoln Park, ruining the ravine in the park that was once a tourist …